Uwagi o Makowieckim - norwidyście

Abstract

Norwid is alive in Tadeusz Makowieckie research (1900-1952) over the whole time of his scholarly activities, from the period of studies to posthumously published dissertation entitled Norwid a rok 1848 (Norwid and the Year 1848). Personal relationship of the resear cher and the poet is hardly explicit, however Makowieckie constant and strong fascination both with the poet and his work is permanently present, and even in the most scholarly texts this fascination, or a kind of małe alliance and spiritual kinship, is transparent. Faithful to the poet as a critic, Makowiecki was most efficiently faithful “in deed”, as a searcher of unpublished works, a defender of the poete good reputation, and a member of a rescue team that after the Warsaw Uprising sought Norwid e manuscripts and graphics. What Makowiecki was intrigued with most in Norwid was his personality: primarily artistic, but also political, social, ethic; simply human. Without ignoring direct data (correspondence, joumalism), the critic seems to claim that this human aspect is most vividly encompassed in Norwide very works, especially those highly artistic. The root of such claim is the conviction that ideas “live” in literary, artistic and musical pieces; that works of art mean something. Makowiecki most willingly analyses boundaries of poetry and aesthetics (other arts), and in the spirit oiPromethidion and Fortepian Szopena (Chopin ’s Piano) poetry and ideology of art and national deeds. The aesthetic motif is emotionally closest to him. Before focusing on Wyspiański, a poet-painter, Makowiecki reconstructed Norwide views on art (mainly poetry); before focusing on the link between musie and poetry, he investigated it in the interpretation of Fortepian Szopena. Analyses of Norwide ideology, the world of his ethical, social, political and religious views resulted from discovering a natural connection of those areas with the poete aesthetics, and from the obligation to reconstruct and save ideals. In his research outlook, Makowiecki, while undertaking even the least signiflcant and minor issue, heads towards “the core” that is the characteristics of the poete creative personality, or its realisation such as a particular literary work, stylistic peculiarities or the world of ideas, for example in the study entitled Norwid - myśliciel (Norwid - Thinker). What was ascertained in his studies remains valid, similarly to Norwide poems and dramas, which continue to be a model of analytical precision and pertinent interpretative generalisation.